Justice for Corrie
Badge of Honor: Texas Heroes Book 3
by Susan Stoker
**Justice for Corrie is the 3rd book in the Badge of Honor: Texas Heroes Series.
Each book is a stand-alone, with no cliffhanger endings.**
Blurb
Blind since birth, Corrie Madison relies on her other sharpened senses in her job as a chiropractor. Never did she imagine she'd have to depend on them to identify a killer. But when a man enters her practice, murdering everyone in his path, Corrie is the only witness—putting her directly in the killer's crosshairs.Officer Quint Axton wasn't looking for love, or even a relationship, until he meets Corrie. Beautiful and brave, resilient and intelligent, she's everything Quint wants—if he can keep her alive long enough to explore their mutual attraction. The threats on Corrie's life are escalating. Surely a blind person is helpless against a ruthless killer?
Hardly. Corrie is about to prove that disabled does not equal defenseless.
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Review by pearls
An exciting, suspenseful story which sways from murder and kidnapping to passionate love. Quint is a strong man, a loyal friend, and a great person. He falls for Corrie at first sight. I loved that he takes his time and gets to know her before jumping in the sack. It allowed to the story to build. Despite her blindness, Corrie is no damsel in distress. She is smart and confident, the two qualities Quint loves most in a woman. A unique heroine of her own life story. Her lack of sight allows us to focus on other parts of Quint beyond his looks to see the wonderful guy that he truly is. The series is centered around various badge-wearers in Texas law enforcement branches who work together to solve crimes. Readers of the series will be happy to see some old friends, but new readers will not be lost if they haven't read other books.
Teaser
Just as Corrie reached for the doorknob to see if she could find Shaun—he usually hung out in the makeshift break room toward the back of the clinic—she heard angry voices in the reception area, followed by a weird popping noise. She froze in her tracks and tilted her head to the side, trying to figure out what was going on.
It wasn't until she heard Cayley's scream cut short that Corrie figured out something horrible was happening.
Knowing better than to open her door and try to stop whatever was going on, Corrie stepped quickly away from the door and imagined her office layout in her head. As the popping noises and the screams continued—and got closer to her office—she frantically thought about where she could hide.
Her desk was large, and sat perpendicular to the doorway. She could walk from the door straight to the chair at her desk without having to swerve around any furniture. She kept her office purposely free of extraneous chairs and tables so she didn't have to worry about tripping over them. She could hide under the desk, but wasn't that where everyone always hid—and died doing it? If she was a crazy person hell-bent on killing everyone around her, that's the first place she'd look for stragglers who might be hiding.
The exam door down the hall was opened and Corrie heard Mr. Treadaway ask, "Who are you?" before the awful popping sound came again.
Knowing time was running out, the gunman would be at her office within moments, Corrie made the split-second decision to see if she could fit in the small area under the sink. There was no other place she could hide.
When she'd been hired, there hadn't been any extra space for her to have an office in the small clinic. A small break room had been converted for her, and the sink and cabinets still lined one wall. It would be a tight fit, an extremely tight fit, but Corrie didn't hesitate.
Hearing the unsteady gait of someone walking down the hall, Corrie raced over to the sink and opened the cabinet underneath. She shoved her butt in first and wiggled it around, knocking over a few odds and ends that were stored under there in the process. She drew her knees up as close to her chest as she could get them and sighed in relief as she realized she fit, barely. Her neck was bent down at an awkward angle and she couldn't breathe very well, but Corrie quickly, and quietly, closed one door, then the other, praying whoever was shooting wouldn't think to look under the sink for anyone.
At the same moment Corrie heard the soft click of the cabinet door to her hiding place engage with the small magnet that kept it shut, she heard her office door burst open.
Because Corrie was blind, her other senses had always been more acute than a sighted person's. She seemed to hear, smell, and taste what people with no disabilities couldn't. The man who'd entered her office walked straight to her desk. Corrie heard her desk chair being pulled away. Yup, he'd immediately checked under there to see if someone was hiding from him. She heard him walk to the small window and held her breath.
About Susan Stoker
10 Places Susan Stoker would like to live:
1. Hawaii (specifically Maui)
2. Bahamas (no specific island, but
somewhere by the ocean)
3. Leadville, CO (the highest elevation
town in Colorado)
4. Alaska (I know, it’s cold, but I’d
love to be able to look through my window at the Northern Lights all the time!)
5. Lake Austin, TX (who doesn’t want to
live by a lake, own their own boat, and chill?)
6. Appalachian Mountains (I’m not that
really picky on which state. But it has to be a log cabin, in the mountains,
away from people)
7. Oregon Coast (it might be rainy, but
it’s beautiful!)
8. Northern Idaho (by a lake…sensing a
theme? Lol)
9. San Diego (who wouldn’t? it’s
beautiful and mild there!)
10. Hawaii (did I say that already? Lol)
She debuted her first series in 2014 and quickly followed that up with the SEAL of Protection Series, which solidified her love of writing and creating stories readers can get lost in.
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Sounds interesting. I like a strong heroine. Wishing Susan all the best
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